On Jan 23, 2017, at 8:35 AM, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/23/17, Warren Young <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Digital Ocean has a $5/month option that should be ridiculously overkill >> (512 MB of RAM, 20 GB SSD) and since they do hourly pricing and have a >> remote API, you could bring it up and down at need. If you just schedule it >> 8 hours a day 5 days a week, it would come to about $1.25 a month. > > I don't know about Digital Ocean, but other ISPs charge you by the > amount of time that your disk image exists, not the amount of time > your VM is actually running.
True, but the Digital Ocean remote API lets you create and destroy whole VMs remotely. With a scripting system like Vagrant[*] you could bring the VM up in the time it takes to get coffee going in the morning, and destroy it in the evening before the occupancy sensors in the office start turning lights off. Or, just create a snapshot, download it, destroy the VM, recreate a fresh VM, upload last night’s snapshot, and revert to the snapshot. [*] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-digitalocean-as-your-provider-in-vagrant-on-an-ubuntu-12-10-vps > price of 3 or 4 USB sticks, you could buy a Raspberry PI (or > equivalent), stick it on your local network, and run a Fossil server > on that! The advantage of the public VPS is that you don’t create a potential island-hopping situation. I’m totally happy to pay someone else to weather the script kiddie pounding. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
